United States v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
524 F.2d 595 · 1975
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 1995 · most notably United States v. Johnson (1976), 76 Wis. 2d 457 - Bies v. State (1977)
31 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Katz v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · Sedillo v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . .it must be shown (1) that the initial intrusion which afforded the authorities the ‘plain view’ was lawful; (2) that the discovery of the evidence was inadvertent; and (3) that the incriminating nature of the evidence was ‘immediately apparent.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It has long been settled that objects falling in the plain view of an officer who has a right to be in the position to have that view are subject to seizure and may be introduced in evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.